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Somebody really should write a Book of Deuteronomy–style lineage of Seattle’s oddball, sui generis, psycho-drag/freak-queen/conceptual-burlesque culture (Dina, Waxie, Pho Bang, Jinkx, Cherdonna and Lou, and so on). My theory: We were just cosmopolitan enough to appreciate the possibilities of experimental burlesque and drag, but just isolated enough that we…

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Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....